Netflix’s new Ricky Gervais comedy special, Supernature, comes under attack from every media organization and magazine for being a comedian and refusing to back down from making people laugh.

Comedians are part of the glue that holds society together and act as a thermometer to inform people the state of the culture. Can comedians take to the stage like legends from the past, such as Richard Pryor, Lennie Bruce and George Carlin, and say whatever they please or are they stuck to making knock-knock jokes.